Here Is Why School Segregation Still Plagues America
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Despite school desegregation laws, White parents have been fighting efforts to allow poorer Black students from failing districts to atte ...
Posted Wednesday, August 5th 2015 at 7:13PM
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Raynette Turner’s Death Now Being Investigated By NY Special Prosecutor
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Posted Wednesday, August 5th 2015 at 7:10PM
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Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Columbia University, offers a provocative, evidence-based view of addiction and discusses how it should impact drug policy.
https://youtu.be/C9HMifCoSko
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Posted Wednesday, August 5th 2015 at 7:04PM
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The link between Vitamin D deficiency and the Health Disparities seen in Black people (Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Autoimmune Illnesses, ..., even Alzheimer's) is demonstrated. Includes anthropological evidence of Vitamin D as key to the origin ...
Posted Wednesday, August 5th 2015 at 6:51PM
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LEBRITY NEWS
BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN DEAD
Bobbi Kristina Brown funeral: Bobby Brown and Cissy Houston lead guests for emotional final send-off
23:47, 1 AUGUST 2015
BY REBECCA POCKLINGTON
The family have put ...
Posted Sunday, August 2nd 2015 at 6:31PM
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As a teacher, you want to create a safe environment for all children where they can learn and play without fear of being bullied. Yet nearly 60 percent of children with learning and attention issues experience bullying.
Understood.org offers resourc ...
Posted Saturday, August 1st 2015 at 4:45PM
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After suffering a stroke just before his 87th birthday party in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Joe Jackson is in stable condition, but still not quite ready to go home. The Jackson family patriarch reportedly suffered three heart attacks, was fitted with a pacem ...
Posted Saturday, August 1st 2015 at 4:15PM
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Today’s Scripture
“Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.”(Proverbs 3:7–8, NASB)
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Posted Saturday, August 1st 2015 at 3:59PM
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This afternoon, the Waller County District Attorney released new video showing footage of Sandra Bland while she was being booked in the Waller County jail. The video answers several questions surrounding what happened to Bland before she died in the ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 5:49PM
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It was a mini family reunion for President Barack Obama as he made his first presidential visit to Nairobi, Kenya, where his father was born. The leader of the free world was greeted by his half-sister, Auma Obama, at Jomo Kenyatta Airport, along wit ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 5:43PM
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Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe are heating up the magazine circuit with their new KONTROL magazine cover. They make marriage look easy (and sexy as all hell.) But in the issue, the hot Hollywood couple dishes on the pr ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 5:22PM
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We've got good news for "Bad" boy Sean "Diddy" Combs, he won't face federal felony charges for allegedly attaching his son's UCLA football coach. More inside.....
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Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 5:19PM
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Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 5:11PM
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Jul 10 | by Natasha
Talk about HOT. When Victoria's Secret model Jasmine Tookes isn't slaying the VS runways, the YBF chick is all up in the Calvin Klein ads with her boyfriend. Check out the newest campaign t ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 5:07PM
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Tyler Perry is going the extra mile in the wake of Bobbi Kristina Brown’s death as he works to make sure things are well with the families of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown.
A source that revealed to “Entertainment Tonight&rdquo ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 5:00PM
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When the President of the United States actually shows he gives a damn and makes historic moves, you can’t help but feel a sense of hope. Well that’s what President Barack Obama is doing after ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 4:58PM
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Black Twitter Has NO Chill! #RachelsMixtape Trends After Rachel Dolezal's Vanity Fair Shoot + Rachel CLAIMS She's Doing WEAVES & Braids To Make Ends Meet!
Black Twitter is at it again! After the release of Rachel Dolezal’s Vanity Fair shoo ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 4:51PM
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“And while African lions may be endangered, isn’t it time we admit that here in the U.S., Black lives are endangered, too?” –David Ferguson
Does that make you feel better knowing a White person said it and not just another &l ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 4:29PM
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#SayHerName: A Look At The Black Female Victims Of Police Brutality And Neglect
We must recognize the stories of women like Sandra Bland, Miriam Carey and Malissa Williams with the same amount of passion ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 4:20PM
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A professorship established by Bill Cosby and his wife Camille is no more at Spelman College.
The BBC reports the Atlanta,GA-based historically black instutition has discontinued the Cosby-funded professorship amid multiple sexual assault and druggi ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 4:05PM
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Paul Mooney has never been shy about voicing his opinion on race and social injustice, and incorporating both into his controversial brand of comedy. Later this month, the comic legend will reunite with comedian-activist Dick Gregory for two special ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 4:03PM
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Julius “Dr. J” Erving says he didn’t mean any harm in writing his new autobiography. The NBA living legend known as much for his towering Afro as his towering talent, says his new book “Dr. J: The Autobiography” was an a ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 4:00PM
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Time away from the spotlight can be a bad thing.
But for Chrisette Michele, it was a necessary thing. Without the break, there is a strong possibility she wouldn’t be sitting in her Williamsburg apartment on a crisp morning, excitedly talking ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 3:58PM
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Bobbi Kristina Brown’s funeral and burial services this coming weekend will be private, according to a report from E! News.
The funeral is scheduled for this Saturday (Aug. 1) at 11 a.m. local time at Atlanta’s St. James United Methodist ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2015 at 3:49PM
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